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This website aims to simplify understanding of how patient data in NHS England are extracted, how data flows into research assets, and are used by consumers at the end of ‘data flow’ chains. The dashboards accompany an academic paper published in Lancet Digital Health that comprehensively maps NHS England data flows from care providers to ultimate users.

Information on this website or the paper are citable as: “Mapping and evaluating national data flows: transparency, privacy, and guiding infrastructural transformation; Zhang J, Morley J, Gallifant J, Oddy C, Teo JT, Ashrafian H, Delaney B, Darzi A; Lancet Digital Health VOLUME 5, ISSUE 10, E737-E748, OCTOBER 2023” or via DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2589-7500(23)00157-7.

Correspondence and queries via the published article.

This work was supported through Imperial College London and the Wellcome Trust.